Manos Por La Paz

Perhaps some might find this interesting.

Freeing Hands for Peace
by John R. Thomson

07.22.2008

July marks the first anniversary of a little-known Colombian organization, Manos Por La Paz (Hands for Peace), and a very successful year it has been. Founded by imprisoned guerrillas of the country’s two most vicious narco-trafficking terror organizations, the self-styled, ultra-left freedom-fighting groups FARC and ELN, Manos Por La Paz has a clear but complicated mission: permit imprisoned guerrillas to demobilize and apply for trial under the government’s Justice and Peace law. Launched spontaneously by prisoners who did not wish to be exchanged for FARC hostages, the group has benefited from the sharply reduced popularity of the terrorist groups, become a major movement within Colombia’s prisons and is now spreading to guerrilla groups in remote parts of the country.

The whole article:

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=19432

By bamacellist on Jul 27, 2008, 08:12 in Politics & the war.

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